A Yonkers teen busted for blowing up a portable toilet admitted he used homemade bombs to unleash a series of explosions across the Westchester County city, cops said. <\/p>\n
The unidentified 14-year-old boy was cuffed after investigators found the local teen had been constructing devices similar to the one that blasted apart a portable toilet inside Bregano Park last week, Yonkers police said.<\/p>\n
A Yonkers teen was cuffed after blowing up a porta-potty in Bregano Park on Monday, authorities said. ABC 7<\/p>\n
Authorities said they took the pubescent demolitionist into custody without incident and searched the teen\u2019s residency, where they discovered \u201cmaterials used to manufacture explosives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The young bomber later admitted to being involved with at least two other incidents, authorities said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe teen admitted to constructing the device used in the incident and to being responsible for several other explosions in the area over the last several weeks,\u201d cops said in a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe teen admitted to constructing the device used in the incident and to being responsible for several other explosions in the area over the last several weeks,\u201d the Yonkers Police Department said in a press release.\u00a0 ABC 7<\/p>\n
The teen was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The porta-potty blast on April 6 rocked a quiet neighborhood, shocking locals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting in the living room, and I went, \u2018Oh my god.\u2019 The whole floor shook. And then my neighbors, you know, and everybody were just talking about it,\u201d local resident Maria Sigismondo told WABC at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last Monday\u2019s blast rocked the quiet neighborhood, which shocked and scared locals. Yonkers Police Department \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
A cop investigates the remnants of the blast. ABC 7<\/p>\n
The blast drew together the investigative efforts of Yonkers Police Department Intelligence Unit, the Westchester County Police Hazardous Devices Unit and the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, who caught the teen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yonkers residents said that they\u2019d heard explosions for weeks \u2013 with the toilet bomb coming with the loudest boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first, we thought it was like fireworks. Then it got louder and bigger, but last night was really big,\u201d local Kenny Reyes told WABC at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No injuries have been reported as a result of the bombs, authorities said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Yonkers teen busted for blowing up a portable toilet admitted he used homemade bombs to unleash a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31360,5970,57,9,11,10,25611,58,3048],"class_list":{"0":"post-194724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bomb","9":"tag-fbi","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-toilets","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-yonkers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}